New ideologies and economic pressures are intensifying conflicts over how best to care for environmental resources and cultural artifacts, explains Alexander Stille in The Future of the Past. Whether describing archeological research in central China or endangered-species protection in Madagascar, Stille vividly illustrates how clashing beliefs about the meaning of the past, what constitutes progress, and the proper role of the marketplace are affecting the control of mankinds inheritance.
Can the Past and the Future Coexist?
By Matthew E. Brown
This
article
appeared in
the Winter 2003/04 issue of The Independent Review.
Energy and the EnvironmentEnvironmental Law and RegulationInternational Economics and DevelopmentNatural Resources
Other Independent Review articles by Matthew E. Brown | ||
Summer 2021 | Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migration, and Political Freedom | |
Fall 2019 | The Economics of Poverty Traps | |
Spring 2017 | Hamilton on Broadway and the Founding in American Culture: An Introduction | |
[View All (5)] |